Migrant Tales insight: After a year and six months I got an email from Dana, who has written many beautiful and powerful poems for us. I was delighted to hear from her after such a long time. Those who remember, the passing away of her parents in such a short time was a terrible blow…
Category: Dana
Dana: Ymmärrättekö Finland – wild culture, wild picture and wild future
Dana How long will I have to endure these racist attacks and hostile looks? And what’s wrong with being a foreigner in Finland anyway? There are no rainbows here if there’s only one color: white. No matter how much you paint your society white, I’m alive and will always feel victorious before you. I have…
Dana: You are not welcome in Finland – go back to where you came from!
By Dana Yes, who invited you here? If you don’t like it here, why don’t you go back to where you came from? This statement is aimed to tire and weaken you. It’s a dark trick with a dark ending for you. And who knows about those dark goals better than I? Back home you…
Finnish Immigration Service terrorizes immigrants (Part II)
By Dana Why are we all so passive if we’re oppressed? What do you fear? What will you fear losing? Money? Benefits? What, then? Where’s your humanity? Who makes up your mind for you? Who controls your thoughts? How do you build and make your morals and values stronger each day? What is your religion?…
Finnish Immigration Service terrorizes immigrants (Part I)
By Dana The Finnish Immigration Service (FIS) strikes terror in immigrants like me. I’ve lived for three years in uncertainty not knowing if I’d ever be reunited with my family. My mother died in May and my father in July. I hadn’t seen my beloved parents for seven years. I never thought that the last time…
Dana: Forbidden questions
By Dana Questions need answers, silence is not an answer, silence has no wave, without a wave you can’t move, without a wave u cant build, without a wave you go and give up, without a wave u can’t wake up. 1. Is Sauli Niinisto your favor president? Why, if yes? Why not? Can you answer this…
Migrant Tales Literary: Sharp-sighted bird and the Yellow Crocodile Kingdom
By Dana Once upon a day there were a pair of birds who made their first egg… after a short while the egg broke and a female baby bird emerged and tweeted her first song… Her parents were shocked and asked how come the little bird was so different from other ones…the bird had big…
Migrant Tales Literary: Death
By Dana Death is calling me, caaall calling Because my life is a bore, booore bore Death is teaching me, hooow… why That i may enjoy Mama’s company, hiiigh high. Death is calling my name, oh that’s well Because in Finland i have nothing to heal Death is calling my heart, wow its dark Finnish…
Darling Baba (Dad): You no longer need a visa to Finland
MT comment: I was sorry to hear from Dana that her father passed away. Two months ago her mother left her. She had been waiting for three years to bring her parents to her side under Finland’s strict family reunification law, which was tightened in 2011. Finland shows its human face by accepting refugees but then…
Migrant Tales Literary: Hey Universe, Finnish Law beats me up
By Dana Dear universe, This is my lonely life in Finland… Finnish law beats me up in different ways, no/one nowhere takes responsibility; there’s not one place in Helsinki that i can go to complain about my loneliness and separation from my loved ones. No/one will listen to me because if i ask a question…